Paper-bag holder



(No Model.)

H. F. HIGHER. PAPER BAG HOLDER.

Patented Mar. 8, 1898.

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1 A A C l/V-VEIVTOR WITNESSES: a/n/ ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY F. HIGHER, OF LEBANON, ILLINOIS.

PAPER BAG HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 600,145, dated March 8, 1898.

Application filed March 18, 1897.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY F. EICHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lebanon, in the county of St. Clair and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Paper-Bag Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to paper-bag holders made in pockets on the periphery of a wheel, and has for its object the holding of paper bags in pockets on the periphery of a wheel so any sized bag can be secured by turning the wheel.

In the accompanying drawing, which shows a side view of the bag-holder with a part of the casing broken away, 1 indicates the base, to which two uprights 2 are secured. Journaled between the upper ends of the posts by means of a pin or shaft 4 is a substantially cylindrical holder, the sides of which, 3, are far enough apart for the reception of the packets of bags 8. Extending radially from the central portion of the holder to the peripheries of the circular plates 3 are partitions 7, which form substantially V-shaped compartments between the plates or sides of the easing. Extending transversely through the sides of the casing at the bottom of each of the compartments is a pin 6. Upon each of these pins is a coiled spring 5, one arm of which rests against one side of one of the partitions 7 and the other arm of which extends substantially to the periphery of the casing and rests against the adjacent side of another partition. The space between the inner ends of the different partitions is greater than the diameter of the coiled spring, and the pin 6 is located so close to one of the partitions that the spring will barely pass between it and that partition. This will leave a space between the spring and the adjacent partition equal to the thickness of the packet of bags, which will permit the longer arm of the spring to lie substantially parallel with the partition and clamp the packet of bags from the spring to the periphery of the casing and thus pre- $erial No. 628,122. (No model.)

vent the bags from slipping out from under the spring. It will also permit of a larger packet of bags being placed in the receptacle than if the partitions were closer together at their inner ends.

In using my improved bag-holder the outer end of each of the springs 5 is caught by one hand and moved away from the partition far enough to permit of a packet of bags being slipped in between it and the partition. The spring is then released and the successive compartments filled with bags of different sizes until the partitions have all been filled. When it is desired to use one of the bags, the holder is turned upon its axis until the partition holding the size bag required is in a convenient position, when the top bag of the packet is drawn from under the spring,which will leave the remaining bags clamped between the spring and the partition ready for future removal.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a bag-holder, the combination, with a support, of a substantially cylindrical bagholder journaled therein, said holder comprising two circular sides and a series of radial partitions, forming substantially V- shaped compartments, a pin through the plates at the baseof each compartment, said pin being arranged closer to one partition than to the other, a coiled spring upon each pin, the short arm of which bears against the partition nearest to the spring, and the long end extends to the periphery of the plates and is adapted to lie substantially parallel with the other plate,substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY F. EIOHER.

Witnesses:

W. H. BLANCK, J. B. GoFF. 

